"Your Majesty, it's getting late, be careful not to catch a cold."
Just when Hirohito was in a trance, Saburo Abe's voice suddenly came into his ears.
"Cold?" Hirohito gave a wry smile. "At this time yesterday, I still thought the Ming army wasn't that formidable. But now, we're surrounded on all sides. Right now, we have no choice but to defend this city. But do you think we can really hold it?"
Saburo Abe said: "We can hold it. We have been plundering food and grass non-stop in the past few months. Now, the war supplies in Tokyo are enough for us to last for a year. If we tighten our belts, we won't starve to death in a year and a half."
Hirohito Hiroichi smiled bitterly and said: "Even if we can hold on here for a year and a half, how do you know that Zhang Wuji will withdraw his troops after a year and a half? If he doesn't leave, what can you do?"
Saburo Abe said: "It is impossible for Zhang Wuji not to leave. After all, he is the emperor of a vast country. His Ming Dynasty has only been established for a few years. It is obviously not worth it for him to leave such a big country alone and waste his time here."
"All we need to do now is to keep fighting with him. As time goes on, Zhang Wuji will definitely retreat."
Hirohito Koichi smiled bitterly and said: "Mr. Abe's words always seem to make sense at any time. I hope you are right this time too."
…
A quarter of an hour later, Hirohito Hiroichi returned to his own palace. There were still many beauties in the Japanese palace, but Hirohito Hiroichi was a man who was always busy, but at this moment, she had lost interest.
He wandered around in his harem for a long time, and finally came to the outside of Qianye Kong's bedroom unknowingly.
However, just when he wanted to go in and talk to Qianye Kong, a maid respectfully walked up to him and said, "Your Majesty, the Queen has just left. She said she wanted to see how powerful the Ming army that came from afar is."
Hirohito gave a wry smile. It turned out that he had just returned from the Tokyo city wall, and his queen went to observe.
Well, after learning that Qianye Kong was not in the bedroom, he lost all interest, so he just found a concubine's bedroom to live in.
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Looking at Qianye Kong again, her maid did not lie. She really went to see the so-called Ming army formation.
Not long after Hirohito Hiroichi left, she stood in the place where Hirohito Hiroichi had previously occupied. Just one glance and she was shocked.
The bonfires outside the city were like a sky full of stars. At first glance, it felt as if there were hundreds of thousands of Ming troops in front of her. But she was a captive after all. After just a moment, she realized that this must be Zhang Wuji's cover.
It is used to scare the soldiers in the city.
Qianye Kong, after all, had been a captive herself. She knew better than anyone how many people the Ming navy could transport from Ming to Japan at once. The Ming navy's capacity was limited to transporting only 40,000 to 50,000 people at a time. Furthermore, even if the Ming army won a decisive victory along the way, would it not suffer any losses? Didn't they leave behind soldiers to garrison captured cities?
Throwing aside all the battle losses and necessary attrition, Qianye Kong could even conclude that the Ming army besieging the city might not have 60,000 people. But it was these 60,000 people who surrounded Tokyo City. You know, there were still 150,000 troops in Tokyo City at this moment.
Qianye Kong smiled bitterly and said: "Zhang Wuji is indeed powerful. I wonder how many times stronger he is than Hirohito Hongichi."
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The Ming army's siege lasted for ten days.
Strangely enough, for ten days, the Ming army only besieged the city and did not make any siege moves.
Hirohito Hiroichi in the city also came to the top of the city every day to take a look, but gradually, Hirohito Hiroichi had an illusion that the Ming army's camp outside the city was getting bigger and bigger.
The number of people increased. At the beginning, the Ming army made a big show, with a sky full of stars outside the city every night. But gradually, even during the day, there were huge crowds of people outside the city.
You know, at night, the Japanese defending the city could only see the bonfires that looked like a sea of stars. During the day, the Ming army had only tens of thousands of people, so it didn't look that intimidating. But gradually, as the daytime saw the gathering of hundreds of thousands of people, the Japanese in Tokyo became even more panicked.
Hirohito said to Abe Saburo beside him: "Abe-kun, what's going on? Could it be that Zhang Wuji really sent hundreds of thousands of troops to his Ming Dynasty?"
Saburo Abe said: "It's impossible. The transport capacity of Zhang Wuji's navy is definitely not that great. In my opinion, he may have captured our people."
Hirohito Hiroichi wondered: "He arrested our civilians? What does he want to do? Even if he needs civilian laborers to accompany the army, there is no need to arrest so many people, right?"
Saburo Abe said: "The situation may be much worse. Our Tokyo City has high walls and thick walls, and there are still 150,000 troops in the city. If Zhang Wuji wants to take Tokyo City, he will have to pay a huge price. But if he uses our people to attack the city, that will be another matter."
Hirohito Hiroichi suddenly realized what was going on, and then he shouted loudly, "You are a troublemaker."
"These unruly people, this group of unruly people, it's okay if they don't even know how to resist the Ming army, but do they have the courage to attack my Tokyo City?"
Saburo Abe smiled bitterly in his heart, "I am the fish on the chopping board, but as long as I can survive, I can do anything."
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Just as Zhao Min had instructed before, in recent days, the Ming army soldiers under their command have captured more than 200,000 Japanese people.
"Among these more than 200,000 people, there are naturally many unqualified people, including women, children, and the elderly. But the Ming army doesn't care about those. They are only responsible for arresting people."
Zhao Min looked at the imprisoned Japanese and couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha, quite interesting, this is what we Mongols did back then."
"Starting tomorrow, let this group of people attack this damn Tokyo city. I want to see whether Hirohito Hiroichi is willing to kill his own subjects."
A smile appeared on Zhang Wuji's lips: "That's right, dogs biting each other is the most interesting thing to watch."
They were in sync with each other. After looking at each other, they laughed again, but this kind of laughter made Zhao Linger and others speechless.
After all, what they were about to do was quite undignified. They shouldn't laugh so loudly when doing such a undignified thing.
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